Counting Collections

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What is Counting Collections?

Counting Collections is a ‘hands-on’, practical approach to developing young children’s enjoyment and understanding of number. It aims to provide all children with essential early number learning in counting and subitising, addressing differences in their home or wider number experiences so all children have a firm foundation for future mathematics learning. Using boxes of interesting objects, children and adults:

• choose a box of objects to count
• agree how they will count it
• count the objects together
• record how many objects there are

We took part in the Education Endowment Foundation trial of Counting Collections for pre-school from November 2023- January 2024 and now use the programme throughout our three year old provision.

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